Capital of France
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The capital of France is Paris.
Paris is the current capital, but the capital's location has sometimes changed.
History
List of capitals of France
- Paris[1]
- Orléans (1108)[2]
- Troyes (1419–1425)[3]
- Paris (1425–1682)
- Versailles (1682–1715)[4]
- Paris (1715–1722)
- Versailles (1722–1789)
- Paris (1789–1871)
- Versailles (1871–1879)[5]
- Paris (1879–1940)
- Bordeaux (September 1914)
- Tours (10–13 June 1940)
- Bordeaux (June 1940)
- Vichy (1940-1944)[6]
- Paris (1944-present)
References
- ↑ Mackay, Alexander. (1876). Manual of Modern Geography, Mathematical, Physical, and Political, p. 202.
- ↑ Annandale, Charles et al. (1902). XX Century Cyclopædia, Vol. 6, p. 229.
- ↑ "Troyes," Catholic Encyclopedia (2009); retrieved 2011-11-29.
- ↑ Goodman, Dena. (1996). The Republic of Letters, p. 24; excerpt, "Even as Louis XIV moved the capital of France to Versailles, Paris was becoming the capital of a new Republic of Letters...."
- ↑ Alden, Henry Mills. (1872). Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45, p. 223; Smith, Benjamin Eli. (1918). The Century Cyclopedia of Names, Vol. 6, p. 1034.
- ↑ Vinen, Richard. (2007). The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation, p. 45.